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abhinavk··on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
The author ditched the M1.
abhinavk··on Pixel 10 Phones
Atleast these type of bumps don't cause the phones to wobble.
abhinavk··on Obsidian Bases
Core plugin is first-party closed-source plugins the Obsidian team created and maintains. Regular (community) plugins are third-party, open-source and vetted only at the submission time.
abhinavk··on Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie'
No x86-32 images.
abhinavk··on Ask HN: Do you prefer X or Wayland
Wayland since last year. Currently I use niri and Gnome with PaperWM.
abhinavk··on Ask HN: Do you prefer X or Wayland
> Wayland AwesomeWM counterpart

Pinnacle or CwC?

abhinavk··on Debian 13 “Trixie”
I was meaning to write Bookworm. Bookworm is the last to support i386 kernel and is supported until June 2028.
abhinavk··on Debian 13 “Trixie”
Buster is supported until June 2028.
abhinavk··on DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024)
Cross-cousin and uncle-niece marriage is prevalent among Hindus in most states of South India (except Kerala). 10-25% of all marriages.

In religion, you can find your reasons for anything. e.g. In Mahabharata, Arjuna and Abhimanyu married their cousins.

abhinavk··on Building Bluesky comments for my blog
They had another blog as per archive.org
abhinavk··on Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems
Almost all MBA owners I know carry a dongle with them.
abhinavk··on Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH
Silverblue is a Fedora project. The Universal Blue and its flavors (Bluefin, Bazzite, Aurora) are based on its image. They are basically community maintained versions of silverblue because Fedora is very cautious (and stubborn) in including QoL things.

[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/

abhinavk··on Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS Takes Over, According to ProtonDB
And if you want to experiment or play with shiny tools, there's toolbox and distrobox.
abhinavk··on I'm done with social media – Or: why I have a blog now
subreddits also have a RSS feed. That helps when you just want stories and links.
abhinavk··on Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
What do you use?
abhinavk··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
Censoring hard is not the defining feature that makes one a Nazi. It's the part think that you think is OK.
abhinavk··on Zorin OS
https://zorin.com/about/#source-code

The link is also in the middle of the home page.

abhinavk··on 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression
https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

It includes the above patches as well as few QoL features.

abhinavk··on 7-Zip 25.00
Github is just a mirror used to post sources of releases and track bugs. It has only 11 commits so far.
abhinavk··on 7-Zip 25.00
Only decompression, not compression.
abhinavk··on Larry (cat)
> David Cameron has said that Larry is a "bit nervous" around men, speculating that, since Larry was a rescue cat, this may be due to negative experiences in his past. Cameron mentioned that Barack Obama is an apparent exception to this fear: he said, "Funnily enough he liked Obama. Obama gave him a stroke and he was all right with Obama."

> In September 2013 tensions were reportedly growing between Cameron and Larry....

The entire Relationship with other politicians section is a hilarious read.

abhinavk··on Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
They will sell a product that people will use to photograph random people doing stuff.
abhinavk··on Wayland is growing up. and now we don't have a choice
People see an em dash and dismiss it as slop.

Maybe they don't know but some of us love them and have keyboards which have an em-dash/en-dash key or use an OS where they are easy to type.

abhinavk··on Wayland is growing up. and now we don't have a choice
I haven't tried Debian but the latest releases of Ubuntu, Fedora as well as any rolling release distro work fine.
abhinavk··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
He did say era. It actually NT3/4 UI.
abhinavk··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
It runs on iPhone 11 and later.
abhinavk··on Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
The upcoming version has "Unload tabs" built in to the context menu. That should result in restarts limited to updates.
abhinavk··on Programming on 34 Keys (2022)
> - stuff like Figma where you need to keep holding the space bar to change editing modes, won't work you need to make you custom (single purpose) space button if you want it.

https://zmk.dev/docs/keymaps/behaviors/hold-tap#quick-tap-ms should work.

abhinavk··on When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations
Suno means "(Hey) Listen!" in Hindi.
abhinavk··on Firefox tab groups are here
Saved groups are shown in the List all Tabs menu (the button on the right of tab bar)
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